Fable II Dyes

Dyes can be purchased all throughout Albion from stylists, tailors, or found as treasure in Fable II. Dyes can range from a variety of colours and are primarily used to change the colour of either the Hero's clothing or hair. The Dyes can be found in the Pause menu under Items.

Once you have selected the Dye you wish to use, you are given the option of which clothing item or hairstyle you want to change. After selecting the item, press the X button to apply the colour. There will be a model of your Hero to the right that will show you what the changes look like. Certain clothing has the option to add a secondary colour change using the Y button.

Dyes never run out, so there is only the need to purchase one. It will never disappear from your inventory and you can sell any extras you may come across.

Freshwater Springs Dye
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Base Price: 250 Gold
Description: The price of this dye has been on the rise ever since unscrupulous merchants realised they could use it to increase the appeal of otherwise bog-standard water.

Impermissable Carmine Dye
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Base Price: 250 Gold
Description: The ingredients of natural red dye are a closely guarded secret of the Fairfax dynasty. One can only assume this bottle was smuggled out by a chromatic rebel determined to overthrow the spectral oligarchy.

Valiant Avenger Pink Dye
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Base Price: 250 Gold
Description: A dark, imposing pink. Although not as threatening as brighter pinks, it’s still deeply disturbing to those who know the colour’s brutal history.

Vermillipede Dye
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Base Price: 250 Gold
Description: A light red made from freshly smashed vermillipedes. Often mistaken for their carnivorous cousins, vermillipedes are herbivores that will only devour small children for the entertainment value.

Viole Dye
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Base Price: 250 Gold
Description: The viole is a small, heavy rodent common in the fields of Bower Lake. They’re endangered, partially because of the many predators that hunt them… and perhaps because they have the misfortune of being a conspicuous dark purple.

Aquapus Dye
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Base Price: 1,000 Gold
Description: This dye is made by wringing the ink from the octopus’s lesser-known but colourful cousin.

Burning Orange Dye
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Base Price: 1,000 Gold
Description: Decades ago, a dye-maker in Bloodstone went mad, rode off into an ancient forest and incinerated thousands of great oaks to smoldering ambers. When they found him unconscious and badly burned, he held in his right hand the head of the local bard, and in his left: this bottle of orange dye.

Liquid Gold Dye
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Base Price: 1,000 Gold
Description: Someday the people of Albion will erect great golden statues in honour of your glorious accomplishments. In the meantime, this rarefied dye will make sure they get the gist of it.

Regal Purple Dye
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Base Price: 1,000 Gold
Description: The dye substance occurs naturally, but must be harvested by humans. It consists of a fresh mucus secretion from the hypobranchial gland of a medium-sized predatory sea snail, the marine gastropod Murex brandaris. The process of obtaining this dye is commonly called ‘milking the snails’ and is as unenviable as it sounds.

Scarlet Slime Dye
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Base Price: 1,000 Gold
Description: This heavenly hellish hue comes from the slimy discharge of the man-eating slug. Although no one has ever confirmed the existence of such slugs, the dye’s sole distributor describes them as highly elusive and notably damned.

Apocalyptic Pink Dye
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Base Price: 1000 Gold
Description: It is said that the warriors of the savage plains that lie in the uncharted lands beyond Samarkand consider this colour to be the most ferocious.

Auburn Hair Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. It may be made by squeezing the armpit hair out of half a dozen hobbes, but thankfully the process of vigorous boiling and mixing with acidic solutions gets rid of most of the associated smell. Can also be used on clothes. Even non-hairy ones.

Blonde Hair Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. Have more fun, empty your head of all intelligent thought, and indulge in many more blondish preconceptions by soaking your lustrous locks with this luminous dye. Can also be used on clothes. Even non-hairy ones.

Brown Hair Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. It may not be the most glamorous of hair colourings, but you can’t go wrong with some mousey brown on your head. Can also be used on clothes. Even non-hairy ones.

Ginger Hair Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. Nobody is more well-loved, admired and tolerated then a person with red hair. So why not join the ginger ranks today and experience the ultimate in hair pigmentation? Can also be used on clothes. Even non-hairy ones.

Knothole Blue Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. They say that no blue can compare to Knothole Blue. But then the people saying that are from Knothole Island, so what do you expect?

Knothole Dark Blue Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. If one peers into the lake at the centre of Knothole Island in the middle of a moonlit night, and if one squints rather forcefully and if, in addition, one is slightly drunk, one gets the sense of just how wonderful the dark blue of Knothole can be. Of course, one could stop arsing about and just use the dye instead.

Knothole Dark Green Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. The famous dye-maker Risky McFadden was inspired to create this hue while suffering from a particularly nasty cold.

Knothole Dark Red Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. There have long been rumours that this dye contains a high percentage of animal blood. These rumours are completely foundless. It’s actually human blood.

Knothole Green Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. The plant life on Knothole Island, subjected to constantly changing weather, can best be described as confused. The colour of this dye can best be described as green.

Knothole Red Dye
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Base Value: 250 Gold
Description: This item is only found on Knothole Island. The inhabitants of knothole Island refrained from using this dye for centuries after they realised its vibrant colour attracted the wrath of the local stampeding manatee, a rare species found nowhere else.

Cursed Grey
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Base Price: 600 Gold
Description: Not often used by people of a sunny and optimistic disposition, this particular shade of grey is apt to bring to mind overcast days, depressing any who see it.

Balverine Brown
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Base Price: 600 Gold
Description: The name refers either to the colour of a balverine’s pelt or to the results of seeing one in the flesh.

Ethical Green
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Base Price: 600 Gold
Description: Made entirely out of organic materials. Most of them fairly disgusting.

Gory Glory Red
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Base Price: 600 Gold
Description: When Glory the butcher’s wife said she was going to paint the town red, nobody realised she was going to use her husband’s entrails as a brush.

Wisp White
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Base Price: 600 Gold
Description: Supposedly made out of the crushed wings of wisps, thought some disreputable dye-makers have been known to use the crushed wings of pixies instead.

Well Red
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Base Price: 600 Gold
Description: The colour of choice for academics, book lovers, and the sort of illiterate poseurs who buy leather-bound books solely to impress visitors.

The Swarthy Revenge Indigo dye is an obvious reference to the character Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride. This is supported by the statement in the description, 'You have crushed its flowers. Prepare to dye.' This is a parody of Inigo Montoya's infamous quote, 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'